Coach Me! Building a DreadBall Smackers Line-Up

DreadBall Endgame

I did not (yet) have a lot of opportunities to play games at events and conventions this year. I even had to give Salute 2013 a miss. Oh well. With a few deadlines out of the way, I thought I’d jump back in. In particular, I think it is about time to redeem my DreadBall Kickstarter-ticket [...]

Inbox: God of Battles Launch at Foundry Open Day

Inbox

I received a bit of wargaming news from one of my blog’s readers via my Contact Form this morning. God of Battles, a new fantasy miniatures game by Jake Thornton (a.k.a. Quirkworthy of DreadBall fame), is launching this weekend in Nottingham at the Wargames Foundry‘s Open Day. From Matt Alard via my Contact Form.   1. [...]

Pictures of Season One MVPs for DreadBall

DreadBall Most Valuable Players

Mantic Games’ Blog just concluded a week of DreadBall coverage. Having pledge a sizable chunk of money to the DreadBall Kickstarter, I was treated to the strangest of experiences. Day by day, blog-post by blog-post, I witnessed the slow reveal of miniatures I had already purchased! Anyhow, here are Mantic’s first batch of Most Valuable [...]

My ‘Locust City Chiefs’ win Mantic’s Z’zor Dreadball Team Naming Contest!

Z'zor Naming Contest from Mantic Games

Two weeks ago I wrote a heads-up on a Dreadball naming contest. Mantic Games got in touch with Dakkadakka to hold a fan competition to name DreadBall’s Z’zor team. The aim was to find a name similarly reminiscent of  known teams in the way their ‘Skittersneak Stealers’ or ‘Greenmoon Smackers’ teams are. Long story short: I won the [...]

Space Marines vs. Xenos: Who got the lovin’ in Warhammer 40K 5th Edition and who did not?

Xenos vs. Space Marines Releases

Warhammer 5th Edition is over. Everyone’s talking about Warhammer 40K 6th Edition now. Yet the final closing of 5th Edition also offer a unique moment to stop, look back and reflect on how those years have changed, for better or worse, the miniature wargame that still is – without a doubt – the big kid [...]